Vapor-bath apparatus.



Patented Oct. l5, l90l. P. 0. GARRETT. VAPOR BATH APPARATUS. (Application filed May 22, 1900. Renewed Mar. 7, 1901.)

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PALMYRA O. GARRETT, OF MCGREGOR, TEXAS.

VAPOR-BATH APPARATUS.

SPEGIEICATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 684,753, dated October 15, 1901.

Application filed May 22, 1900. Renewed March 71 1901. Serial No. 50,225. (No modeh) T0 (tZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, PALMYRA O. GARRETT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mc Gregor, in the county of McLennan and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vapor-Bath Apparatus; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

I This invention relates to new and useful improvements in a heating device for bathing apparatus.

My invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which, with the letters of reference marked thereon, form a part of this application, and in which drawings similar letters of reference indicate like parts throughout the several views, in which-- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the cabinet in readiness for use. Fig. 2 is a view showing the cabinet folded. Fig. 3 is a view showing the manner of construction of the panels or frame-sections which are hinged together and make up the cabinet. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the vapor-generating pan and burner.

Reference now being had to the details of the drawings by letter, A designates the cabinet, which is made up preferably of four panel-sections A of rods bent into rectangular shape and hinged together by any suitable hinges. A canvas or cloth covering B of a single piece of material is provided, which is sewed over the outer marginal edges of the four hinged frames. Near the free edge of one of the end frames are fastened buttons D D, and along the upper marginal edge of said section carrying the buttons D is fastened a third button E, which is near the innor hinged edge of said frame. At the opposite end of the series of frames making up the cabinet are attached the tabs F, having buttonholes therein, which when the cabinet is opened up for use and the end frames brought together are designed to be caught over the buttons D, as will be readily understood. On the frame adjacent to the one carrying said tabs is fastened the flap G, having a slit 11, through which the head of theperson passes, and a flap H closes over said slit, excepting the aperture left for the head, said flap being preferably fastened by a button. On opposite sides of said slit H are the slits K, which are guarded by flaps K, and these slits K are to allow the arms of the person using the cabinet to be passed therethrough. When the cabinet is adapted for use, the free edge of the flap G is passed down over the upper edge of the frame carrying the buttons D, and the buttonholes in said flap are caught over the buttons D.

The bath apparatus comprises the pan M, supported on the legs N, which latter are pro vided with suitable handles N, as shown. The coal-pan O, which is fastened to said legs a suitable distance below the pan M and has brackets P secured to its inner wall at locations about its middle portion, and on these brackets the perforated plate or disk Q is adapted to rest. A suitable aperture or apertures R are formed in said pan 0 beneath said disk for the purpose of allowing a draft to the burning coal which rests upon said disk.

In practice it is my purpose to place the bath apparatus underneath a chair upon which the user sits and place medicaments in the pan M, and by means of a fire burning on the disk the medicated vapors arising from the pan M will rise up and surround the body of the user, and by first adjusting the cabinet about the person the vapors are confined within the inclosure.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim to be new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a vapor-bath apparatus, a vapor gen orator, comprising a stand having legs N which have their lower ends outwardly bent forming feet, the fire-pan O, with flange about its edge, resting on shoulders formed by bending the legs outward to conform to the shape of said flange, the tapering circumference of said pan being fastened to the inner edges of the legs, the inverted-V-shaped brackets P, legs, and the inclosure for retaining the vaeach fastened at one end to the bottom of por, all as shown and described. IO said pan and its other end free, the perfo- Intestimony whereof I affix my signature rated disk supported on the curved portion I in presence of two witnesses.

of said brackets, the leg portions above said PALMYRA O. GARRETT. shoulders being inwardly inclined, the bath- Witnesses:

pan having a flange resting on the upper ends G. E. MOSLEY,

of said legs, the handles N fastened to the F. O. CONNOLLEY. 

